Rich List 2017 Young 50
25 £ 25 m £ 7 m ▲
EDEN HAZARD
Football ChelseaHazard is accelerating up the Young Rich List almost as fast as
he moves through opposition defences. The Chelsea midfielder,
26, also plays for Belgium and has recaptured his form of two
years ago when he was named England’s player of the year. He is
being linked with a world-record transfer to Real Madrid, which
could double his pay to £400,000 a week. 2016: £18m, 36=26 £ 24 m New entry ★
LITTLE MIX
MusicLittle Mix, who began the year with a Brit Award for best British
single for Shout Out to My Ex, kick off a UK concert tour three
weeks today. The band — comprising Perrie Edwards, 23, and
Jade Thirlwall, 24, from South Shields, Jesy Nelson, 25, from
Romford, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 25, from High Wycombe
— won The X Factor in 2011. They have sold nearly 30m records
worldwide, have a commercial empire including perfume and
clothing, and support charities such as Children in Need.27= £ 23 m £ 5 m ▲
AMIR KHAN
BoxingKhan’s defeat to Saul Alvarez last May for the WBC world
middleweight crow n was sweetened by a purse estimated at
£9m. The 30-year-old Bolton-born boxer has just four defeats in
35 fights and is a former world champion. He has accused
members of his family of squandering his fortune, which he could
replenish if he agreed to fight fellow Briton Kell Brook. He won an
Olympic silver medal in 2004, aged 17. 2016: £18m, 36=27= £ 23 m £ 6 m ▲
MESUT OZIL
Football ArsenalAn enhanced contract is on the table for the man who plays a key
role in midfield for Germany. Ozil is, alongside Theo Walcott and
Alexis Sanchez (both qv), one of the highest-paid players at
Arsenal, earning more than £7m a year. However, it is unlikely that
the 28-year-old will extend his contract. 2016: £17m, 39=29 £ 22 m £ 5 m ▲
THEO WALCOTT
Football ArsenalWalcott is into his 12th year at Arsenal, the club he joined from
Southampton at 17. His £140,000-a-week contract runs until- With more than 100 goals for his club over the past decade,
Walcott, 28, is one of his team’s most consistent performers,
though he was dropped from the England side by manager
Gareth Southgate on his birthday in March. 2016: £17m, 39=
30 £ 21 m £ 1 m ▲
FLORENCE WELCH
MusicWelch’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful tour, named after her
third album, has played to more than 200,000 fans in North
America and grossed at least £7m. The 30-year-old London-
born singer-songwriter found fame performing as Florence + the
Machine — her 2009 debut album Lungs has sold 1.7m copies in
the UK. Welch, diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia at a young
age, attended Thomas’s Battersea, the south London prep school
Prince George is expected join this autumn. 2016: £20m, 31=31= £ 20 m No change ■
NICK D’ALOISIO
InternetD’Aloisio, 21, is studying for a philosophy and computer studies
degree at Oxford — and has no worries about how he will pay hisfees. He made the news app Summly while revising for his GCSE
mocks at King’s College School, Wimbledon, and sold it to Yahoo!
for $30m. D’Aloisio’s investments have since included DeepMind,
the artificial intelligence start-up bought by Google for £400m.
At least 10% of his payment for Summly was in Yahoo! shares,
which have recovered over the past year. 2016: £20m, 31=31= £ 20 m £ 3 m ▲
ELLIE GOULDING
MusicWith a tour , an appearance in Strictly Come Dancing’s final and a
song in the latest Bridget Jones film, 2016 was one of Goulding’s
busiest years. Box office receipts for her shows last year
exceeded £18.9m. The Hereford-born singer-songwriter’s tracks
Love Me Like You Do and Burn have each had more than 1bn
views on YouTube. The 30-year-old, who has launched her own
shoe range with the German brand Deichmann, has spoken of
using kick-boxing to combat anxiety. 2016: £17m, 39=31= £ 20 m £ 1 m ▲
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND FAMILY
PropertyNicholas van Hoogstraten, who made his fortune as a notorious
slum landlord in Britain, has strong links with President Robert
Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe and has been keeping a low profile
of late. He has handed many of his directorships and companies
to his children, including Hamilton, 29. Between them the
Hoogstraten children — also including Rhett, 31, and Britannia
and Richmond, both 26 — have more than 100 directorships in
businesses with assets of about £155m. We assign about £20m
to the three younger Hamiltons, led by Alexander. 2016: £19m31= £ 20 m £ 5 m ▲
JUAN MATA
Football Manchester UnitedHaving been sold by Jose Mourinho when he played for Chelsea,
Mata, 29, might have had more to fear than most when his former
boss resurfaced at Manchester United, the club that had taken
Mata off Chelsea’s hands in early 2014. Any such fears have
proved unfounded, with the Spain midfielder one of the most
reliable and creative players in the side. His £140,000-a-week
contract at the club runs until next year. He has described the
wages earned by footballers as “ridiculous”. 2016: £15m, 46=31= £ 20 m No change ■
SAM SMITH
MusicSmith picked up an Oscar and a Golden Globe last year for
Writing’s on the Wall, his theme for the James Bond film Spectre.
The 24-year-old has been quiet since then but a new album is
planned for September. London-born Smith’s debut LP, In the
Lonely House, won him four Grammy awards. 2016: £20m, 31=36= £ 19 m £ 4 m ▲
WILLIAN
Football ChelseaThe 28-year-old Brazilian midfielder signed a new contract at
Chelsea last summer to keep him until 2020. The deal, £120,000
a week, came after he was among the few of the club’s players to
emerge from last season with much credit. 2016: £15m, 46=36= £ 19 m £ 1 m▼
WILL YATES-JOHNSON
PropertyYates-Johnson, 30, is a young designer who trained at the Royal
College of Art. His work has been displayed in the Science
Museum and on the front cover of Wallpaper magazine, but his
fortune stems from his family’s south London bricks-and-mortar
empire, Yates Property Holdings, which had £2.9m turnover and
assets of £68.6m in 2015-16. He has a 27% stake worth £19m in
the firm, whose origins go back to the 1880s. 2016: £20m, 31=“When I
put my fi rst
app on the
App Store,
it made £^79
in a day.
That’s when
I realised
there’s a
material
element
to this”
NICK D’ALOISIOAMIR KHAN
Entry 27=, £23mELLIE GOULDING
ALAMY; GETTY; REX Entry 31=, £20m
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